Bloomsbury is to publish Devotion by Kevin Jared Hosein, after securing the title at auction for a "major" sum. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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HarperCollins scooped two prizes at The FutureBook Awards, held at the end of The FutureBook Conference (4th December), but there were also wins for Hachette, Penguin Random House, Faber and BookTech Company of the Year, Reedsy. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has two books on the shortlist for this year’s Blue Peter awards - The Epic Book of Epicness by Adam Frost and The Silly Book of Weird and Wacky Words by Andy Seed and Scott Garrett. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Children’s has signed a deal for two more books by Jenny McLachlan, the author of the Flirty Dancing series. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Publishing's sales grew 13% in the first half of the year, boosted by a particularly strong performance from the children’s and educational department. For the six months ending 31st August 2015, turnover totalled £52.7m, 13% higher than £46.6m for the same period in 2014. Adjusted... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Revenue at Bloomsbury Publishing rose 13% in the six months ended August 31, 2015 compared to the same period a year ago, but pretax profit dipped to £342,000 from £509,000. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Magician series among children’s books boosting revenue at publishing house, with pre-tax profits at £1.9m Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury has reported a jump in half-year sales after a strong performance from educational and children’s books. Sales were up 11.6% to £52.7m in the six months to... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury is publishing a new biography of Hillary Clinton in the lead-up to the 2016 US presidential election. Hillary: A Biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton (January 2016, £12.99) has been written by former financial journalist Karen Blumenthal right, also the author of Bloomsbury’s 2012... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After two months of speculation, AOL has acquired mobile ad network Millennial Media for $238 million, or about $1.75 per share. The Millennial deal is the newest step in building out AOL's tools to compete in mobile advertising against behemoths like Facebook, Yahoo and Google. With the deal,... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sphere is to release a new book by Kevin Pietersen this autumn, focussing “squarely” on events on the pitch. Pietersen’s KP: The Autobiography, released last year, has sold 106,654 copies through Nielsen BookScan to date. In the book Pietersen criticised a number of his former England cricket... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury will this November publish a deluxe edition of the illustrated Harry Potter, with artwork by Jim Kay, priced at £150. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – Deluxe Illustrated Edition will be published alongside the £30 version, also illustrated by Kay. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the past year Kevin Gentzel has gone from newspapers to digital media and back again.After hopping from The Washington Post to Yahoo last year, Mr. Gentzel has landed at Gannett as the newspaper company's chief revenue officer and will report to the company's president of domestic publishing... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Children’s Books has acquired a three-book young fiction series about a pug dog from debut author Laura James. Ellen Holgate, editorial director at Bloomsbury Children’s Books, acquired world rights from Gill McLay at the Bath Literary Agency. The first book, Captain Pug, is about... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The National Literacy Trust (NLT) and Bloomsbury have teamed up to launch a poetry prize. The Poetry Prize 2015 is open to poems of any type, from sonnets to free verse to rap, that are a maximum of 16 lineslong. The competition costs £8 to enter a first poem, and £4 for any subsequent... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The CityServe movement started in famously liberal Portland, Ore., when an evangelical leader joined forces with the city's gay mayor, the LGBTQ community, and organizations of many stripes. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Prior to the launch of its Africa edition, Quartz was still seeing between 100,000 - 150,000 monthly readers originating from the continent. For editor-in-chief Kevin Delaney, that wasn't much of a shock. The digital pure-play's focus on ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Manchester University Press (MUP) has acquired 58 titles in politics and sociology which had been scheduled to appear with Bloomsbury. Earlier this year, Bloomsbury Academic announced it would no longer be commissioning books in the fields of politics, international relations or sociology as it... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Information m.d. Kathy Rooney has left the company as part of a restructure. Rooney, part of the senior management team at the publisher, left at the end of May to pursue other opportunities, beginning with a non-executive role at information management platform Librios. Vafa... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At this year’s BEA, Bloomsbury (3156) will be launching a new imprint, marking the fifth anniversary of Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, and hosting signings for two authors: one already a familiar name to booksellers around the world and the other, a new presence on the international scene. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has bought a book on social health by Julia Hobsbawm, the founder of knowledge networking business Editorial Intelligence and the world’s first professor in networking. Bloomsbury acquired world rights in the book, titled Fully Connected, from Toby Mundy at TMA. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Although sales and earnings at Bloomsbury were relatively flat for the year ended February 28, 2015 compared to fiscal 2014, the company did make progress in easing its dependence on the “traditional book market,” company chief executive Nigel Newton said. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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